I am wondering if anyone could advise me on which should be enabled. I also have a choice of "host" or "dynamic" for most of them and would appreciate any knowledge you can impart on which is the correct choice? My IPSEC ALG is dynamic.

PocoMail has been valiant in withstanding all my attempts to set up my gmail and I am still trying. I am grateful for the help chris and eric have given. This is the first problem I've been unable to solve and I'll keep trying. It should be a straightforward matter and I have been given very clear instructions, but nothing seems to be working so far. It could have something to do with my router firewall--unfortunately, I can't get any support from my ISP because they took it over when Verizon dumped all of its rural lines, and the new company admittedly knows nothing about DSL--they just wanted the land lines. The router manufacturer will not offer support, saying it was made specifically for Verizon and all support should be directed to them.

In the meantime, I find that as a result of my repeated attempts, a lot of accounts with the same name are showing up in my Accounts list. If I check on "Edit", I find that all the information is blank. I cannot delete them. This is a mystery. Has anyone had any experience with this? How can I delete them?

TIA and cheers... hotter than Hades here today--hope it's cooler where you are (but probably not where Chris is, if I remember correctly)!

Isabelle wrote:It could have something to do with my router firewall--unfortunately,

As I sat pondering a solution to your problem, I got to thinking. In most cases port forwarding shouldn't be required unless you are using a program the needs to listen for incomming connections. I doubt it's your router.

I can't get any support from my ISP because they took it over when Verizon dumped all of its rural lines, and the new company admittedly knows nothing about DSL--they just wanted the land lines. The router manufacturer will not offer support, saying it was made specifically for Verizon and all support should be directed to them.

That is one heck of a predicament.

In the meantime, I find that as a result of my repeated attempts, a lot of accounts with the same name are showing up in my Accounts list. If I check on "Edit", I find that all the information is blank. I cannot delete them. This is a mystery. Has anyone had any experience with this? How can I delete them?

I've never seen this, but this could be part of the problem. You could try making a backup of accounts.ini then delete it. This will result in you having to recreate all of your accounts again.

TIA and cheers... hotter than Hades here today--hope it's cooler where you are (but probably not where Chris is, if I remember correctly)!

It is cooler here than yesterday, 28C now at 10:29am, yesterday it got up to 34C. Just a normal and typical day.

Eric wrote:As for our Belgian ISP's, they won't support routers, nor offer help with it. Pity, but that's the reality.

Yeah, and they also offer a "free" Transfer Limit

I remember from the past when you were only allowed to connect 1 PC per account so supporting a router was not needed then but now they allow you to connect multiple system I feel they should start to support routers (even if it's just a limited number of brands and types).

I remember from the past when you were only allowed to connect 1 PC per account so supporting a router was not needed then but now they allow you to connect multiple system I feel they should start to support routers (even if it's just a limited number of brands and types).

If you ask for wireless connection, then they will install an access point, not a router.Since you can connect 255 wireless devices to a router with one IP, it's understandable why they don't support it. That's also why I always recommend buying a router instead of subscribing to the wireless connection from their ISP.

I think Isabelle configured her Gmail account as a POP account vise an IMAP account. That would explain being able to send but not receive. imap.gmail.com.

That's what I was thinking all along, although there's something wrong with her accounts too.

I use both. I setup two accounts for Gmail, one for POP that I use daily and an IMAP account that I use on occasion to clean up sent messages and check my spam folder. I have several accounts setup up this way.